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Pain, the unpleasant physical and sometimes emotional experience, is almost analogous to being alive. Doctors divide pain into two types; acute and chronic.  Chronic pain is that which lasts longer than a month whereas acute is that which goes away when it’s cause ceases. Chronic pain, doctors say, often begins …

By Devorah E. Klein, Gary Klein, and Shawna J. Perry Three reasons to be wary include issues of trust, shifting conditions, and flawed research Every health-care system balances coverage, quality, and cost – often focusing on one or two at the expense of the others. European systems, for example, tend …

By Henry I. Miller Some regard it as necessary to reduce health disparities, but for others it is discriminatory Race can undoubtedly be a tricky subject, with any suggestion of genetic differences among racial groups – beyond superficial characteristics like skin color – potentially invoking memories of the nineteenth-century eugenics …